I recently enjoyed walking down main street up and over the levee to the great Mississippi River bank to look for treasures. This little walk (really not so little) made me feel alive again. I kept thinking of Huck Finn. I am now a River Rat. My fellow River Rats are Barry and John. I took a picture of John in a tree with moss hanging down behind him and the river and sand-bank in the background. He is going to use it as his CD cover and give me credit for the photo. He sings and has a producer. He is a true character.
I found a lot of treasure…so much so that I could carry it with me on the long walk back. I found a big plastic Folgers’s coffee container full of bacon grease. I emptied it and washed it out in the River and filled it with broken glass, bottles, spikes, etc. I had to go back the next day with bags and pick up my little treasure piles up and down the bank. Comrade River Rat John is going to show us some more areas to look for stuff. As soon as the weather gets better, we will be hitting the banks again.
